Seymour Wulida

Biography

Seymour Wulida is the son of renowned Kunijku artist Jimmy Njiminjuma (1945-2004) 

Njiminjuma took a strong role in teaching his younger brother John Mawurndjul the art of bark painting. Njiminjuma later established an outstation at Kurrurldul on Mimarlar Creek, a tributary of the Tomkinson River, south of Maningrida.

Wulida has learnt to paint on stringy bark, hollowlogs and carved wooden sculptures of Mimih spirits under his fathers direction.

Common subjects that he paints are Wakwak (Black Crow), Yawkyawk (Fresh water mermaid) and Ngalyod (Rainbow Serpent)

 

Community

Maningrida

Subsection

Maningrida

Date of birth

1969-12-31

Clan

Kurulk

Past Exhibitions

Solo

  • 2009
    2009 Seymour Wulida, Seymour Wulida & Maningrida Artists Birrung Galleries, Sydney, NSW

Group

  • 2016
    2016 NATSIAA, Finalist, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Award
  • 2014
    2014 Salon des Refusés- Outstation Gallery
  • 2009
    2009 Ancestral Spirit Beings, Spirit Beings and Ceremonial Lorrkon, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
  • 2009
    2009 During the Wet USA, During the Wet, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, USA
  • 2009
    2009 Works in Season:, Works in Season: Bark Paintings, Carvings & Weavings, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
  • 2009
    2009 MACD Group Show, Maningrida Group Show, Maningrida Arts & Culture Gallery, Darwin, NT
  • 2008
    2008 Spirit in variation, Spirit in variation Part 2, Annandale Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  • 2008
    2008 Weaving around the traps, Weaving around the traps, Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne, VIC
  • 2008
    2008 Maningrida arising, Maningrida arising, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
  • 2006
    2006 Mumeka to Milmilngkan, Mumeka to Milmilngkan, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT

Collections

  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC